Nation Quotes

We must never forget why we have, and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have 'guardians at the gate.'
Allen West

Sleep, Forget, Night

If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things. It's not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation.
Paul Ryan

Good, Fight, Done

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.
Paul Ryan

History, Children, American

Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored by the support of this convention for vice president of the United States. I accept the duty to help lead our nation out of a jobs crisis and back to prosperity - and I know we can do this.
Paul Ryan

Crisis, Help, Accept

Before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation's economic problems. And I'm going to level with you: We don't have that much time. But if we are serious, and smart, and we lead, we can do this.
Paul Ryan

Time, Smart, Before

Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it. Ladies and gentlemen, our nation needs this debate. We want this debate. We will win this debate.
Paul Ryan

Win, Between, Difference

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
Charles de Gaulle

Different, Two, Anyone

We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.
Herb Brooks

Dreams, Kids, Dreaming

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
Barbara Jordan

Good, Common, Share

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Woodrow Wilson

America, Sometimes, American

It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.
Ann Romney

True, Single, Together

I stand before you today as a disciplined conservative Texan, a committed Republican and a proud American, united with you to restoring our nation and revive the American dream.
Rick Perry

Today, Before, Proud

A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?
Jon Meacham

Politics, Wise, Political

We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.
Rick Warren

Change, Good, America

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.
Jimmy Carter

Leadership, Done, Down

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
Friedrich Schiller

Honor, Worthless, Gladly

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Great, Precious, Poet

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.
Benjamin Carson

Freedom, Here, Speech

After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.
Charlie Gonzalez

Success, After, Working

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
Alexander Graham Bell

Control, Air, Secures

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
Zora Neale Hurston

Confusion, Body, Weak

If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
Ted Nugent

America, Laws, Package

As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.
John M. McHugh

America, Lives, Pay

In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.
Bob Ney

Society, Nothing, View

I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God.
Ice Cube

God, Islam, Mean

There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.
Marco Rubio

God, Government, Rights

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.
Marco Rubio

History, Heart, Greatest

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.
Marco Rubio

Women, Men, Here

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Experience, Living, Memory

A good nation I will make live.
Black Elk

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